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Growth · December 10, 2013

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Write the best headline for your content with this simple app

This was inspired by Upworthy's advice [0] that for you to discover the best headline for your content, you must force yourself to write 25 of them and the best will jump out at you. So yeah, you can do this in a text editor, or a spreadsheet, or whatever, but I had a spare evening and I wanted to cut my teeth on Facebook's React JS library. I picked a simple example and set to work. The end result is this little app. I like the idea of distraction-free writing, and a simple list-style app with no visual clutter seemed like a nice environment to write headlines. I got a jump-start by looking…

Write the best headline for your content with this simple app launched on December 10, 2013 with 7 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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